Music Apr 15, 2010 at 4:00 am

John Lydon and the Unlikely Rise of Post-Punk Pioneers PiL

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It's Hell on Earth to remain adolescent forever.
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Kudos to Dave Segal for an absorbing interview. However...does not Johnny ROTTEN (Lydon) come off as a MI5 British Secret-Service Intelligence victim? Did they NOT have Motive to turn ROTTEN into an inoffensive, platitude-loving-spouting VEGETABLE? Did they rip out his brain, his SOUL out through the kind of drug-therapies and torture that our wonderful CIAetc agencies have been documented to use in this nation ad nauseum over and over again? If you think this is over the top---then go download the PIL discography off the torrent, listen to it, and read the thoroughly SELF-DELUSIONAL Comments that Rotten gave with Segal! "This is the best band I've ever been in. I cannot wait to display that in America." Gods...'BLIND but you DO NOT KNOW THAT YOU CAN'T SEE!!!'
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Dave,
I saw PiL back in the day at the Granada Theatre in Chicago. They were very good. Bassist, Jah Wobble is extraordinarily gifted. Alas, he isn't touring with the current line-up. I recommend the "The Snake Charmer". It's a solo work by Wobble.
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"Snake Charmer" (with no The) is a collaborative work by Holger Czukay, Wobble and The Edge. Try to know what you're talking about before posting.
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"Open Up" is from 1993, not 1995.
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@5
I mistakenly went off the Leftism release date for "Open Up." We'll correct that. Thanks.
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This is probably one of the best interviews Lydon has ever given; nicest too. Glad to see he's opening up, and your question are superb. Sure, I miss the days when he gave that interview to Musician and talked endlessly about his "piles" and accused the interviewer of thinking he was homosexual ("I am not a bum lover!"). This one makes me feel all warm and happy. Oh, Johnny. Thanks, Dave!
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Why is it noteworthy that Lydon pronounces the name of his band "pill"? Is there some other way that people have been pronouncing it? "Pile"? "Pail"? "Rhododendron"?
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@8
Because many have been calling it "Pee Eye 'Ell" for years.
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Well I'll be dipped. Seems like the pill-shaped logo would seem to indicate something about something.

Good interview, though.
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